First the bad news:
> The use of fbackup for backing up NFS mounted file systems is not guaranteed to work as expected if the backup is done as a privileged user. This is due to the manner in which NFS handles privileged-user access by mapping user root and uid 0 to user nobody, usually uid -2, thus disallowing root privileges on the remote system to a root user on the local system.

So assuming the files have permissions
rwxr-x--- (Owner can do anything, other users in the group can read & execute, others [Including root from another system in this case] can't do anything.

You can test this as root by trying to copy a file from the NFS mounted filesystem.

Either change the permissions to e.g. rwxr-xr-x, or if this creates a security issue, run fbackup as a member of that group. You may have to split the backup, doing one backup without the -n option (so it doesn't read the NFS drives), then another, as a member of that group, just for the NFS drives.

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Sorry, I missed your last post as I was typing mine & I've been tied up
since then. I've reproduced the error myself now; If a directory within the
tree being backed up has read but NOT execute permissions, it will cause
fbackup to error in this way, as it tries to check whether a file has changed.

You can check this by working your way down the directory tree on the NFS
mount & using "ls -ld" to look at the directories & their permissions. You
can either
- Change the permissions to e.g. drwxr-xr-x ;

OR Override the permissions & prevent this from happening again by changing
/etc/exports to add "-root=workstation_2_host_name" to the line that
exports the data directory. This grants root on workstation 2 superuser
rights on the NFS filesystem.

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